INDIANAPOLIS - Some Indiana communities planned to hold Fourth of July fireworks shows Wednesday night, while others canceled their displays because of the increased risk of fire from a persistent drought - a risk that proved dangerously real in Indianapolis.
WOLFEBORO, N.H. - Mitt Romney on Wednesday said requiring all Americans to buy health insurance amounts to a tax, contradicting a senior campaign adviser who days ago said the Republican presidential candidate viewed President Barack Obama's mandate as anything but a tax.
INDIANAPOLIS - Gov. Mitch Daniels is shrugging off criticism by opponents of his recent appointment as Purdue University's next president.
MISHAWAKA, Ind.- Students and staff at northern Indiana's Bethel College are mourning the death of a professor who drowned during a fishing trip to Michigan.
An immersive learning musical created in Spring 2010 with Ball State students is traveling to New York City in the fall, as one of eight new musicals selected to participate in the Festival of New Musicals.
RALEIGH, N.C. - Andy Griffith, who made homespun Southern wisdom his trademark as the wise sheriff in "The Andy Griffith Show" and the rumpled defense lawyer in "Matlock," died Tuesday. He was 86.
Ball State's Studebaker East Residence Hall will not be ready for occupants by the beginning of Fall Semester, the university announced Tuesday.
The Muncie City council approved a rezoning ordinance that will allow a new 80-unit apartment complex to be constructed near the village in a 7-1 vote on Monday.
RALEIGH, N.C. - Andy Griffith, who made homespun Southern wisdom his trademark as the wise sheriff in "The Andy Griffith Show" and the rumpled defense lawyer in "Matlock," died Tuesday. He was 86.
REYNOLDS, Ind. - Authorities say a 9-year-old old girl has died from injuries she sustained in a northern Indiana crash that also killed her grandparents and older brother. -á
WASHINGTON - Utility crews untangled downed power lines and tree limbs Sunday, working to get the electricity turned back on for millions of people facing a second day of 100-degree temperatures without modern conveniences like air conditioning and refrigeration.
With sweltering heat slated to continue throughout the coming week, more than 1,000 Delaware County residents still remain without electricity as a result of severe weekend weather. The American Red Cross has opened cooling stations in the county with plans to keep them available as needed. -á
SANFORD, Fla. - A bond hearing took more a tone of a trial Friday when both sides in the Trayvon Martin murder case presented what sounded like opening statements with the defense quizzing witnesses and trying to poke holes in the prosecution's evidence.
INDIANAPOLIS - One of the biggest surprises of the announcement that Gov. Mitch Daniels would take over as Purdue University president in January was his pledge to stop campaigning and commenting on politics until then.
A scorching drought that prompted "burn bans" in most counties across Indiana probably won't be helped much by recent light rain, a weather service forecaster says.
WASHINGTON - Utility crews untangled downed power lines and tree limbs Sunday, working to get the electricity turned back on for millions of people facing a second day of 100-degree temperatures without modern conveniences like air conditioning and refrigeration.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Melted bowling balls in the front yard were among the strange sights that met C.J. Moore upon her return Sunday to her two-story home, now reduced to ashes by the worst wildfire in Colorado history.
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's voters appeared poised to bring the old guard back to power on Sunday, a dozen years after the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party lost the presidential seat it held for more than seven decades in a contest that proved the country was finally a democracy. -á
WASHINGTON - Republican congressional leaders said Sunday that voters - not the Supreme Court - will have the final word on President Barack Obama's health care law come November. And they are betting that the law's unpopularity will be enough to drive Democrats from power.
A series of new Indiana state laws went into effect July 1 as the Regular Session of the General Assembly ended. Indiana residents will have a few new guidelines to follow.
